Winning Chess Endgames: Just the Facts!

Comprehensive Chess Course #6

by Lev Alburt, Nikolay Krogius, Lev Albert

Nothing more clearly separates chess master from chess wannabe than winning endgame play. For most chess players, victory is the real finish line. And the endgame is the last lap of the race. This revised, updated edition of Just the Facts! brings English readers the once strictly guarded and time-tested Soviet training methods, the key to the 50-year Russian dominance of the chess world. Winning Chess Endgames can take you from beginner to master.

Genres: Chess

412 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1999

Reviews

[Miles · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant. I learned so much from reading this book. Learning about things that were previously foreign to me, such as the opposition, and tactics with minor pieces. Diagram 59 on mage 56 is one of the most important things I learned in this book. You'll know what I'm talking abotu when you read the book :)

[Todd Bryant · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent endgame guide for club players.

[Cody Oldham · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an awesome book!

I really enjoyed the content, layout and the structure of this book. It isn't the last endgame book I'll ever read but the games, positions and classifications of different endgames made it an easy book to study from. I liked the profile of the players and some notes about history as well.

This is one I think I'll keep close for a while.

[Mark Kaprielian · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is the most systematic and easiest to read book on endgames I’ve ever come across. This book won the Chess Journalist of America Book of the Year award for 2000-2001.

If I had to recommend only one endgame book, this would be it.